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No doubt you sav\^ in the press that Congress has just approved continuance of the mutual security prograra. This, however,
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merely gave authority to appropriate. The money itself has to be separately legislated. In this latter respect, the nautual security program is so gravely endangered that I feel impelled to let you know of it, with the thought that you may wish to join me in an attempt to avoid irreparable damage to our country.
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This situation reminds me of a similar challenge two years
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You will recall that I then turned to you and other friends
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for cooperation in explaining to the Congress and the public the course of responsibility and wisdom on the reorganization of the Department of Defense. You and they, to my everlasting gratitude, responded magnificently. At the end the needed law was passed, and today all America is much the better for it.
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The mutual security problem is now in a similar status. The attached copy of a talk I made on May second to the Nation presents the situation in broad terms and deals with a nunnber
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of the spurious arguments raade by badly informed individuals against this program. ^ ¦
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Very shortly -- probably within the next two weeks, and while I am in Paris -- the level of appropriations for the mutual security program for the next fiscal year will be decided in
the House of Representatives. If a crippling cut is made by the House, there will be little prospect of recouping in the Senate. As indicated in the enclosure, cuts of a billion to a billion and a half dollars are being forecast by pov/erfully placed House Merabers. ' , ;,
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I cannot but trouble over this possibility as I deal with the great issues confronting the free world, indeed all humanity, in the Summit Conferences in Paris. It is incomprehensible
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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May 14, I960
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Dear Dillon:
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No doubt you sav\^ in the press that Congress has just approved continuance of the mutual security prograra. This, however,
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merely gave authority to appropriate. The money itself has to be separately legislated. In this latter respect, the nautual security program is so gravely endangered that I feel impelled to let you know of it, with the thought that you may wish to join me in an attempt to avoid irreparable damage to our country.
I "^ 1
1 h
This situation reminds me of a similar challenge two years
ago.
You will recall that I then turned to you and other friends
^ "it"'
for cooperation in explaining to the Congress and the public the course of responsibility and wisdom on the reorganization of the Department of Defense. You and they, to my everlasting gratitude, responded magnificently. At the end the needed law was passed, and today all America is much the better for it.
Y N
h9
The mutual security problem is now in a similar status. The attached copy of a talk I made on May second to the Nation presents the situation in broad terms and deals with a nunnber
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of the spurious arguments raade by badly informed individuals against this program. ^ ¦
; '
Very shortly -- probably within the next two weeks, and while I am in Paris -- the level of appropriations for the mutual security program for the next fiscal year will be decided in
the House of Representatives. If a crippling cut is made by the House, there will be little prospect of recouping in the Senate. As indicated in the enclosure, cuts of a billion to a billion and a half dollars are being forecast by pov/erfully placed House Merabers. ' , ;,
^ _ .^-'
I cannot but trouble over this possibility as I deal with the great issues confronting the free world, indeed all humanity, in the Summit Conferences in Paris. It is incomprehensible
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